A developmental study of men in mandatory military service based on interviews of young soldiers who had recently completed their service in Israel. The book deals with the central issues of transitio
In Narratives of Positive Aging, Amia Lieblich presents a qualitative study that explores the life narratives of elderly men and women who engage in practices of "positive aging." They belong to a spo
How do we derive concepts from stories and then use these concepts to understand people? What would have to be added to transform story material from the journalistic or literary to the academic and t
Using a new model for the classification of types of readings, this book shows how to read, analyze and interpret life story materials.The authors introduce four models: holistic-content reading; holi
Seventeen academics from the U.S., Israel, and Japan contribute 12 chapters demonstrating the potential for narrative analysis to present new insights on human relationships. The authors use a range o
